Bajheera and Venruki are the hosts of the Warcraft Esports show, Gladiator's Summit. These shows will be recorded throughout the season and released on the WoW YouTube channel. You can find out more information in the blog post or you can watch the first episode which is available now!

Blizzard at Gamescom 2017 -- Preview Stream - Mon, 21 Aug 2017 10:57:17 -0500Blizzard is at Gamescom 2017 this week from August 22-26 but today Blizzard is hosting a preview stream starting at 9:00 PDT. All games will be having one Blizzard Reveal Ceremony on 23rd at 1800 CEST, so make sure to check back then for all the new Gamescom Information.

You can find the stream on YouTube or Twitch and you can check out the full schedule in our previous post.

Preparing for Patch 7.3 - Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:33:04 -0500With patch 7.3 in the horizon, a lot of people ask themselves what they should do before the patch hits. What is going away? What isn't going away? What should I do prepare for the patch? Those are the questions that we try to answer in this post!If you need help figuring out at which step of the many Legion attunements your character is on, make sure to check our Attunements tool!

If you're new to this series or want to re-visit past posts, you can check out the first and second edition, including some tips on farming and selling Transmog while the current Trial of Style event is active.

My name is Gumdrops and I’m the lead moderator for the /r/woweconomy subreddit and the accompanying Discord server.

Blizzard Reveals gamescom 2017 Schedule, Art, and Shop - Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:27:53 -0500Blizzard has revealed their schedule for gamescom 2017! There is one Blizzard Reveal Ceremony for all the games on 1800 CEST August 23rd--which strongly implying WoW will not be getting a massive expansion reveal. Other WoW events include the WoW European Championship Finals and 7.3 dungeon races between Nova and Set Sail for Fail.

Trial of Style Transmog Holiday (August 17th - 22nd) - Wed, 16 Aug 2017 17:09:16 -0500Time to show off your best transmogs with the Trial of Style, the most fashionable holiday in Azeroth! From August 17th through 22nd, whip up stylish outfits around surprise themes, vote on your party's appearances, and strut on the catwalk.

This holiday is now live on NA and EU realms.

Competing in the Tournament

Enter the tournament by speaking to a transmogrifier NPC in a major city.

Last Legion Beta Build 22995 (WOW-22995patch7.1.0_Beta) was back in 2016-11-08 08:08:38 and today Blizzard updated their Version file that included new Beta Build Config for Beta Build 24758 (WOW-24758patch7.3.0_Beta).

Between 2016-11-08 (the date of the opening of Trial of Valor) and 2017-08-04 Blizzard never publicly released an Beta Build.

New Combat Animations in Patch 7.3 Blog -- It's Magic! - Wed, 16 Aug 2017 12:20:23 -0500Blizzard has released a blog detailing some of their changes to the Caster Animations in Patch 7.3. This blog also includes comments from designers, animators and sound artists.We've covered the changes to the following animations in Patch 7.3:Restoration Druid

Some of these pets reference Draenei culture in Burning Crusade, such as the Mana Rays and Talbuks, while Marsuuls and Panthara are fancifully cute but deadly. We'll run down all the tameable tints and details about each new pet tame in this post.

Patch 7.3 Weekly Content Unlock Schedule - Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:18:51 -0500As previewed by Game Director, Ion Hazzikostas, patch 7.3 will have its content gated during the first three weeks of the patch. With every passing week, new content, story and features will be unlocked to players. You can check the schedule below and Blizzard is doing accelerated unlock testing this week, as detailed in the Build 24829 notes:

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This week, we’re testing 7.3’s weekly content rollout on the PTR, using an accelerated schedule.

The Music of Patch 7.3 - Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:23:33 -0500All of the music for Patch 7.3 has been added in build 24829! Check out the gorgeous soundtracks for Antorus, Mac'Aree, and more. You can also subscribe to our YouTube and follow along at our music playlist.

For spell changes for build 24829, which had updates last night as well as this morning, check out our other datamining post.

Whispers of a Frightened World Scenario -- Now Live - Tue, 15 Aug 2017 10:27:55 -0500After Argus appeared in the Skybox for all players last week and Doomsayers invaded Dalaran, a new step of the pre-7.3 questline is now live. The Whispers of a Frightened World questline and world scenario is now live.

Warning: A general warning that the rest of this post will reveal upcoming parts of the questline.